RESEARCH

1. RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL
COMMUNICATION :
Reading skill for literature review and
writing skills
(UNIT 2 and 5)

2. Literature Survey
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Survey has a manner ‘procedure’
Importance for literature survey ? Why?

3. What is Previewing?
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Previewing a text means to get an idea of what we are going to find
in a particular text or in other words it is a skill of learning about a
text before reading.
This is simple skill includes seeing what we can learn from head
notes or other introductory materials, skimming to get an idea of
the content and taking a look at how the text is organised.
Three objective is :
To identify the author’s most important points
To recognise how they fit together
To note how you respond to them.

4. Main Purpose
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Are you looking for information, main idea, complete
comprehensive or detailed analysis?
How will you use this text?
Get an overview of the context, purpose and content of the reading :
What does the title mean?
What can you discover about ‘when’, where and for who of the
written text?
What does background or summary information provided by the
author or editor predict the text will do?
What chapter or units does the text fit into?

5. Sources of Literature
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Primary sources :
Periodical
Research report
Conference proceeding
Official publication
Thesis
To be published
Secondary sources :
reference book
Text book
Monographs

6. Literature review
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Two main purpose
To summarize the research
To evaluate the research
Two basic types of literature review
Exemplary literature review
Exhaustive literature review

7. Format for Literature
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Introduction
General statement of the problem
Summary of literature
Problem cause solution order
General to specific order
Known to unknown order
Comparison and contrast order
Critical evaluation

8. Understanding the gist of an argument
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Part of reflective writing to help the student to be better thinker
Identifying argument : consists of two parts
Claim or statement that summarizes the main idea.
Reasons why that claim is true and or evidence to support that claim.
Evidence is presented often in the form of a citation.
Argument structure –
A main argument, or thesis is presented first.
Then, different sections are formed with the purpose of supporting
the main argument.
Within those sections, we find paragraphs which hold the purpose of
supporting the sections that support the thesis.

9. Analysing argument :
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Ask questions like :
Based on the evidence, is there different
explanation or claim possible.
Is the evidence convincing and sound
How does the argument / evidence compare with
other you have read.

10. Construction of Abstract
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Main component of the abstract above
Background position
Aim and thesis of article
Method of research
Result of research

11. Plagiarism
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What is plagiarism ?
Plagiarism means taking ideas or words from a source without credit
(acknowledgement) to the author.
Method to avoid the plagiarism
Understand the context
Acknowledging the sources
Quote
Identify what does and does not need to be cited
Cite your own material
Scientific evidence you need to gather after performing test
should not be cited.
Manage citation
Use plagiarism checkers

12. Thank you